Nobody talks about the English dub of Ghost Stories. That's the entire point. The original Japanese version is a straightforward supernatural anthology, perfectly competent, instantly forgettable. The Western localization team was given the script and told to make it work, so they just... made a different show. Voice actors improvised jokes, rewrote dialogue, broke the fourth wall, turned melancholy spirits into characters with personalities that had no business existing in the source material. It's chaos masquerading as an adaptation, and it shouldn't work, but it's the only version anyone remembers because the dub is funnier than shows that tried to be funny. The OVA special extends that lunacy into three episodes of Japanese urban legends filtered through the lens of comedians who decided the material was theirs to destroy. You're watching ghosts get roasted by people who were paid to translate, not perform stand-up.

A prequel to Gakkou no Kaidan, regarded as its second season, these three OVA episodes take a lighter view of the spirit world. The ghosts here are friendlier, living in a derelict theater before an audience no one can see. On its stage come short horror stories rooted in traditional Japanese tales, mixing comedy, mystery and supernatural chills. The episodes came bundled with the August and September issues of Comic Bun Bun between 2005 and 2009, first on VHS and then on DVD from 2007.